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SURELY the child protection crisis is as important as any the health service has ever faced in the past?
SO there is now a plan to end one of Ireland’s greatest scandals.
I THINK we need to be very clear about a couple of things.
But there are several very pressing reasons why it must be built. Abusers, and those who covered up abuse to protect institutions, must be constantly reminded of what they have done.
WHAT’S the opposite of regeneration?
WHY is it every time the role and freedom of the media is discussed, the voice of the ordinary citizen is never heard?
I HAVE to tell you something.
I TOOK an additional few days off over Christmas and I think it must be affecting me.
WHAT actually happened?
EACH year at this time, I see it as my duty to tell you what’s going to happen next year.
WELL now, who went up in your estimation this year? And who went down?
IT may not really have sunk in yet.
AT the end of the year 2000 the pay and pensions bill for the public service was about €9 billion.
LILYBAEUM no longer exists.
SO, are we going to be as angry as this on budget night? Or are we going to show them that our country deserves better?
I THINK if I were a public servant today, I’d be mad as hell.
IT was 1960s music that was playing at the end of the protest march the other day. Protest songs, Bob Dylan, that sort of thing. I’m comfortable with that sort of music myself – it makes me feel nostalgic, in fact. But I couldn’t help wondering whether it said more about the organisers of the march than it did about the protesters. Somehow, it all seemed a little out of date.
HE wasn’t in good humour.
I WAS watching the news the other night and saw someone I’d never seen on television before.
ON Saturday, I went to an education conference where Garret FitzGerald spoke about the decline of moral authority in Ireland.
DAN O’BRIEN is probably one of the people that Bertie Ahern thought would be better off committing suicide.
IS it just me or has the whole world gone mad?
DEAR Eamon, I hope you don’t mind my writing you this letter.
DO you know how much €90 billion is?
I WAS listening to David McWilliams on Ryan Tubridy’s radio show the other day.
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